I'm kind of surprised about Cyndi Lauper, as I thought one of her famous songs that was really a cover was "Time After Time" and not "Girls Just Want To Have Fun". Learn something new every day, I suppose.

When The Black Crowes were a new thing, I heard Hard to Handle on the radio (kids, ask your parents) and thought, wow, that's a pretty good song. I'll have to check that band out.

It was immediately followed by the Otis Redding original.

My next thought was, wow, The Black Crowes suck. I can't believe I liked that band for even a minute. Since then I've never heard a version of that song by anyone other than Otis that I could stand for even 30 seconds.

You don't tug a Superman's cape, you don't spit into the wind, and you don't cover Otis Redding.

skinink:I like Joan Jett and the Blackhearts, but haven't a majority of their songs been covers? Not that I care, I like cover albums. I like "Diver Down" by Van Halen and "The Spaghetti Incident?" by GnR.

I have a best-of Joan Jett compilation album and most of the songs were covers. (Not counting technical covers, meaning Runaways-era songs)